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Re: why Yankee vs Mets baseball games are called ''Subway Series''? |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Apr 30 15:11:36 2006, in response to Re: why Yankee vs Mets baseball games are called ''Subway Series''?, posted by dayveo on Sun Apr 30 14:44:49 2006. Actually it's the New York City Transportation Agency, nowhere in the MTA's literature does it refer to the system officially as "The Subway System". A subway is just a tunnel with stations in it, and convention would seem to hold that so long as part of a given line is a subway then the whole line is taken to be a subway. This means that both the 7, 4, B, D and CTA Red Line trains qualify as subway lines, regardless of the common name for the system, be it 'subway' or 'el'. If you're really desperate to reinforce your ignorant NY-Centric ways then you could claim that you can walk from the Queens Blvd subway to Shea Stadium, but you'd have to leave yourself quite a while for that. And Chicago is still the only city where you can go between both stadiums on the same line through a subway and without a transfer. |
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